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BOSTON (WHDH) -- A Boston Police officer jumped into the frigid water to reach a drowning woman Friday.
Cell phone video captured Boston Police Officer Edward Norton taking the plunge; he jumped into the frigid Fort Point channel in a torrential downpour to rescue the woman who'd fallen into the water.
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Russia is enduring its harshest winter in over 70 years, with temperatures plunging as low as -50 degrees Celsius. Dozens of people have already died, and almost 150 have been hospitalized.
The country has not witnessed such a long cold spell since 1938, meteorologists said, with temperatures 10 to 15 degrees lower than the seasonal norm all over Russia.
WASHINGTON -- As 2012 began, winter in the U.S. went AWOL. Spring and summer arrived early with wildfires, blistering heat and drought. And fall hit the eastern third of the country with the ferocity of Superstorm Sandy.
This past year's weather was deadly, costly and record-breaking everywhere – but especially in the United States.
Terrible weather conditions have caused flooding and landslides in many parts of Britain and nearly 300 flood alerts are still in place across the UK
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Festive holiday-makers have been warned to expect misery on the roads, railways and at airports today as four million people make the great Christmas getaway.
Terrible weather conditions have caused flooding and landslides in many parts of Britain and nearly 300 flood alerts are still in place across the UK.
Blowing snow reduces vision as motorists wait for a light change in Lawrence, Kan., Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012. The Midwest snowstorm is causing travel delays on roads and in the air. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
Travelers facing canceled flights and closed roads were hoping to finally head to their holiday destinations Friday as Winter Storm Draco dumped more than a foot of snow in parts of the Midwest moved across the Great Lakes toward Canada.
Winter Storm Draco, part of a system that began in the Rockies earlier in the week, led airlines to cancel more than 1,000 flights Thursday and caused whiteout conditions that left roads dangerous to drive on. It was blamed for deaths in at least five states, with parts of Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan hit with more than a foot of snow.
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The low-pressure system associated with Winter Storm Draco will linger over northern New England into the weekend. This will result in the continuation of both strong, gusty winds and lake-enhanced snow through Saturday.
Winds will be the most intense from parts of southern New England and New York to the Mid-Atlantic on Saturday. Gusts could reach 40 or 50 mph at times during the afternoon, which may result in airport delays from New York City to D.C. In addition, isolated power outages and tree damage cannot be rule out as well
Sandhill Cranes ride out the storm on the banks of the Wisconsin River. (Photo by Tom Lynn/Getty Images)
Winter Storm Draco brought much-needed moisture to drought-hit states, but the drought has such a tight grip on the central U.S. that more moisture will be needed, according to weather experts.
"The snow is good, but in most instances it was less than one inch of liquid and if the soils are frozen, there will be little infiltration," said Brian Fuchs, climatologist with the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. "Welcomed, yes. A big changer to the overall drought, not really," Fuchs said.
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Heavy equipment operators work on a mountain of debris left by Superstorm Sandy Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Wall, N.J. Associated Press.
It was another expensive year of weather-related disasters in the United States.
The country saw a preliminary total of eleven billion-dollar weather disasters in 2012, according to a report released by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This follows a disastrous 2011, which contained a record fourteen billion-dollar weather disasters in records dating to 1980.
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Using ESA’s Cluster quartet of satellites as a space plasma microscope, scientists have zoomed in on the solar wind to reveal the finest detail yet, finding tiny turbulent swirls that could play a big role in heating it.
Turbulence is highly complex and all around us, evident in water flowing from a tap, around an aircraft wing, in experimental fusion reactors on Earth, and also in space.
December 22, 2012 – VANUATU – A strong 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of the South Pacific island of Vanuatu on Saturday, December 22, the US Geological Survey said. But no immediate tsunami warning was issued. The quake struck at a depth of more than 200 kilometers at around 9:30am (2230 GMT Friday) some 130 kilometers north of Santo, USGS said. “It’s quite deep … so there’s no tsunami,” said David Jepsen, a seismologist with Geoscience Australia which measured the quake at 6.6 magnitude.
